The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.